What We Do In The Shadows, S05 E09
Some crazy vampirical plotting is afoot.
Crazy Walls
Yarn time!
“Does that look straight to you?”
By Will McPhail at the New Yorker.
(Thanks, Russell)
Dark S01 E10, Alpha und Omega
If we were forced to split crazy walls into two simple categories, we’d have those created by people in the midst of the crazy – a serial killer, a time traveller, a script writer – and those created by people outside the crazy, attempting to figure it out from scratch.
Many of those in the latter category are the police and other security forces, either piecing together clues to catch the criminal or, as here, trying to work out what on Earth is going on in their little German town where people disappear, other dead bodies appear, and something weird seems to be happening every 33 years.
Dark, S01 E09, Alles ist Jetzt (Everything is Now), and S01 E05, Wahrheiten (Truths)
Of course, a show this complex requires more than one crazy wall and this one, spreading over more than one plane, is a nice variant. While the previous crazy wall was a simple photos-and-string affair, here we have a mess of clippings, notes, drawings, photos, pages from books, and so much more.
Dark S01 E01, Geheimnisse (Secrets)
It shouldn’t be a surprise that a show featuring a large cast of interrelated characters, and storylines split over three time periods (so far) with many of the same characters, would feature crazy walls. How else is someone to keep track of everything? And so, in the very first episode, we have this dimly-lit creation. It’s impossible to know where the character obtained all these photos of people but let’s pass that mystery by.
Kleo, S01 E04, “Der Minister”
When your 1989 East German house is decorated with such lively wallpaper it would be a shame to cover it up for the crazy wall you need to piece together whatever it is Thilo is piecing together here. So what better alternative than rigging up some red string around the place and hanging everything from that?
Breaking Bad, S05 E04, “Fifty-One”
An excellent example of considered, organised work, even venturing into advanced techniques such as using a second colour of string.
(Thanks Hugo.)
From the trailer, a crazy wall so big it needs one of those cool horizontally-sliding ladders to maintain it!
(Thanks Tom)
It took her a little while, but Aleida’s obsession inevitably moved on from poring over thick ring binders of schematics and instructions. The only way to sort this out once and for all was to put it all up on the wall.
The Good Place S04E07: “Help Is Other People”
This is the third time we’ve seen a crazy wall from The Good Place so they must be a good thing. Or maybe not.